Born in Guizhou, China, Chongyan Liu currently lives and works between China and France. After studying oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2013 to 2017, she went on to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she obtained the diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques (DNSAP) in 2022, in the ateliers of Clément Cogitore and Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano. She is currently pursuing her artistic career at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. 

Her work spans a diverse range of media, from documentary and fiction films to the moving image, and also includes installation, painting and sculpture. 

Chongyan Liu’s vision questions current global tensions, influenced by contemporary collective ideologies. Her aim is to create a common ground that transcends the often polarising discourses that divide social classes. In her practice, she weaves an emotional web which highlights socio-political issues rooted in interpersonal narratives. 

Chongyan’s work has been honoured at various international film festivals and exhibitions, including the Berlinale Talents, the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in Indonesia, IDFA in the Netherlands, the Beijing International Short Film Festival, the Seoul International Pride Film Festival, Videoex in Switzerland and VISIO in Italy. Her forthcoming feature-length documentary, Niche of the Dragon,wasselected by the Doc Station lab at the 74th Berlinale Talents.

2022
Préparation de deux futures projets : AFTER ALL; L'ÉLÉGIE FÜR A FRIEND;
Obtenu DNSAP avec le soutien de Clément Cogitore, Petrit Halilaj et Alvaro Urbano ;
Co-organisatrice du Festival SIMULACRA – SCULPTING OUR TIME moving images Festival, Prince Charles Cinéma, Londres;
Co-curatrice de l'exposition collectif EVERWHERE YOU GO, Londres;

2021
Réalisatrice du court-métrage SANS MOTS, Paris;
Échange à l’Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK);
Réalisatrice du court-métrage THE HARRYIAN THEORY, Londres;

2020
Obtenu DNAP avec le soutien de Clément Cogitore, Petrit Halilaj et Alvaro Urbano;
Réalisatrice du moyen-métrage documentaire IS THERE A PIN ON THE MOUNTAIN, Paris;

2019
Entrée à l’atelier Petrit Halilaj&Alvaro Urbano en deuxième atelier, ENSBA, Paris;
Réalisatrice du essai vidéo WHEN SHALL WE MEET AGAIN, Paris-Grenoble;
Réalisatrice du essai vidéo 19, Avignon;

2018
Entrée à ENSBA au cours des études en deuxième année, au sein de l’atelier Clément Cogitore;
Réalisatrice du court-métrage documentaire CONVERSATION WITH FRIENDS;
Réalisatrice du court-métrage documentaire DOWNSTAIRS;

2017
Diplômé de l’Académie Centrale de Beaux-Arts de Chine, Pékin;